The most important networking command in Linux might be ping. This command lets you check if a remote machine is responding ...

Last time, we pointed out that the usefulness of the ping and tracert commands has been severely limited by the fact that in order to protect from denial-of-service attacks, many systems now do not ...

We recently wrote about the diminishing usability of “ping” and “tracert” due to the use of these commands as components of various types of network attacks. We also expressed our dismay that by ...

Although Command Prompt has been around for a long time, even before Windows 11, many users still ignore it. While the operating system's modern graphical interface seamlessly handles virtually every ...

Why is it that when I ping Google.com I get about 28ms - 30ms, however when I run a tracert, it takes 98 - 100ms to hit my first hop, alone! It's just my router, 192.168.1.254... Yet when I ping this ...

I'm looking for some clarity on the inner workings of traceroute and ping record-route. Here's my understanding.<BR><BR>Traceroute sends UDP (ports 33434-33534) packets with a destination IP as ...